Monthly Archive for July, 2014

Series: The Ten CommandmentsThe Sixth Commandment: Sacred Life, Sacred Love Exodus 20:13, NRSV Matthew 5:21-24, NRSV Romans 13:8-10, NRSV Reflections An ambassador is the official representative of her government; in a sense she bears the image of her nation. Now imagine that a foreign government seizes the ambassador and kills her. That wouldn’t simply be […]

Series: The Ten CommandmentsThe Fourth Commandment: Rest for the Restless Hebrews 4:1-11, NRSV Exodus 20:8-11, NRSV Reflections Sabbath is the cornerstone of faithful freedom. Such faithful practice of work stoppage is an act of resistance. It declares in bodily ways that we will not participate in the anxiety system that pervades our social environment. We […]

Series: The Ten CommandmentsThe Third Commandment: Entrusted with God’s Name Exodus 3:11-17, NRSV Exodus 20:2, 7, NRSV Reflections If it doesn’t look like love, if it’s not beautiful, if it doesn’t promote peace, let it go, it doesn’t flow from God. — Brian Zahnd Commandments are like Israelites’ constitutions Don’t misused God’s name, not to […]

Series: The Ten CommandmentsThe Second Commandment: God is Revealed, Not Created Exodus 20:4, NRSV Colossians 1:15-23, NRSV Reflections God says to us in the 2nd Commandment, “If you stop trying to make me into your likeness, I can start making you into my likeness. If you only will let me stretch your imagination instead of […]